Disproving the Bible

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Are you kidding me about the fossil record. Do you really think it shows what you think it does. If evolution were true, there would have been ancestors and transitional creatures between each genus, family, order, class, and phylum in the layers below the Cambrian Explosion. Where are they.

Do you have any understanding of how rare fossil formation actually is? It's not just "animal dies+time= fossil!" there are a lot of intermediary steps, not to mention the risk of any potential fossils getting destroyed in one way or another, not to mention them simply not being dug up through accident or what have you... the simple fact that the fossil record is so comprehensive and lacks any contradictory evidence for evolution is itself staggering evidence of just how accurate the theory is.

Actually think about your contention here: what you're basically saying is that we have so much evidence for evolution, but why don't we have an unreasonably high level of evidence for it? It's completely idiotic, not helped at all by the fact that you're willing to believe creationism despite the fact that you have no fossil evidence at all for it: is it just ideas that you disagree with that need such huge amounts of proof?

Your tree of life explanation? You simply stated that it was confusing and inefficient and that it was a bush. Well, it's not. A bush does not branch low and then reconnect further up so some genes can get from that branch to the other branch to match the observation. Genes are telling different evolutionary stories and drawing them does not explain them.

It does map them, however. Whoever said the tree of life was drawn to explain the various evolutionary lineages? It's a map, it's visual shorthand. It no more was made to explain things than a real map was drawn to explain mountains.

Handily, genetics, the fossil record, and the many observable instances of evolution that happen all over the globe do explain those lineages.

It seems the vestigial parts list is getting smaller--starting with the appendix. It now seems to "serve an important role" http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...tion-of-t/ Also, plenty of mammals have appendixes. The coccyx is an anchor point to muscles--hardly useless. Other examples--perhaps remnants of the past, but perhaps, like the appendix, we just don't know the purpose yet.

So you're willing to indulge in an argument from ignorance and just assume that they have a purpose?